...These are distinctions which do not furnish any proper basis for the attempted classification. They must always rest upon some difference which bears...made arbitrarily and without any such basis'': Gulf etc. Ry. v. Ellis, 165 US 155. Hence, whenever a special charge or duty has been enjoined or penalty...

...These are distinctions which do not furnish any proper basis for the attempted classification. That must always rest upon some difference which bears...never be made arbitrarily and without any such basis. . . . But arbitrary selection can never be justified by calling it classification. The equal protection...

...classification. "That," as declared by the supreme court in Gulf etc. By. Co. v. Ellis, 165 US 150, "must always rest upon some difference which bears...never be made arbitrarily and without any such basis." In the case just cited, a statute of Texas imposing an attorney's fee in addition to costs upon railway...

..."These are distinctions that do not furnish any proper basis for the attempted classification. That must always rest upon some difference which bears...proposed, and can never be made arbitrarily and without such basis. But arbitrary selection can never be justified by calling it classification. The equal...

...individuals outside of the classes, these classifications must not be arbitrary or unreasonable, but must rest upon some difference which bears a reasonable...in respect to which the classification is proposed. It may not single out the directors of one corporation, and, solely because they are such directors,...

...These are 2O7 distinctions which do not furnish any proper basis for the attempted classification. That must always rest upon some difference which bears...made arbitrarily, and without any such basis: Gulf etc. Ey. Co. v. Ellis, 165 US 150, 17 Sup. Ct. Eep. 255. See Pearson v. Portland, 69 Me. 278, 31 Am....

...These are distinctions which do not furnish any proper basis lor the attempted classification. That must always rest upon some difference which bears...never be made arbitrarily, and without any such basis. If it bo said that this penalty is cast only upon corporations, that to tin-in special privileges are...

...are 18 ° distinctions which do not furnish any proper basis for the attempted classification. That must always rest upon some difference which bears...never be made arbitrarily and without any such basis." The classification made by the act of 1897, the validity of which is here questioned, is that of common...

...associations in order to subserve public objects. For this court has 'held that classification 'must BS always rest upon some difference which bears a reasonable...never be made arbitrarily,. and without any such basis But arbitrary selection can never be justified by calling it classification. The equal protection demanded...

...right which all can claim in the enforcement of the law." In the Ellis case, supra, it is said that the classification must always rest upon "some difference...which the classification is proposed, and can never he made arbitrarily." Multiplied citations from the United States supreme court could be made, but...